Global Mining: My GPU has Infinite Upgrades - Chapter 36

Chapter 36: He Forfeited?

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Liu Yu sat on the stage in a daze. When he heard the notification for the start of the match, he climbed onto the table with a thud. Soon, he snored.

“F * ck, no way. What’s going on? How did he fall asleep just like that?”

“Even if he didn’t sleep all night, he wouldn’t be so tired, right?”

“He’s giving up, right? Can’t he just give up? He wasted his free pass into the second round.”

The surrounding crowd expressed their jealousy towards Liu Yu’s quality of sleep. Xiang Qingnan looked coldly at Luo Qiang. “What’s going on? He didn’t appear at the draw last night. Didn’t you notice anything unusual?”

“I went to the training room to look for him last night. At that time, he was in good spirits and seemed to have learned a lot. I even specifically told him to rest earlier tonight….” Luo Qiang had a sad face. Who would have thought that Liu Yu would do such a thing.

“Are you sure that he seemed to be in good spirits yesterday?” Xiang Qingnan frowned. “Even if he didn’t sleep all night, he can’t be this sleepy!”

“I’m sure!” Luo Qiang quickly patted his chest to guarantee. Xiang Qingnan snorted coldly. “You think of a way to wake him up. If he doesn’t make it to the finals today, you should know the consequences.”

Luo Qiang shivered and quickly agreed. However, he was cursing in his heart. This kind of large-scale competition was broadcasted live all over the internet. As long as he appeared at the scene, he would be suspected of interfering with the competition. No matter how he operated it, it wouldn’t feel very good.

He thought of many ways, but they were all rejected. Luo Qiang was like an ant on a hot pan. He walked around the competition venue again and again. Finally, he thought of a method that wasn’t a method. He increased the volume of Liu Yu’s notification sound.

Every contestant would time their own renderings. The competition also allowed them to bring their smartwatches into the competition. After all, if they relied solely on the human brain, their computational ability wouldn’t be able to keep up with the competition. Moreover, it wasn’t realistic for real renderings to not have the assistance of computational ability.

However, in order to prevent any negligence on the part of the contestants, the organizers would still provide reminders when they were halfway through the competition and ten minutes before the end of the competition. The volume was fixed, and the contestants could adjust the volume according to their own conditions.

In the middle of the match, Luo Qiang doubled the volume of Liu Yu’s reminder, but it didn’t have any effect. Liu Yu was still laying on the table like a dead pig. It wouldn’t be right to say that it didn’t have any effect because he had changed his position.

Luo Qiang, who was on the sidelines, was dumbfounded. The next reminder was the last ten minutes. Although Liu Yu was good, the players in the same arena were all experts. No matter how good he was, he couldn’t use ten minutes to render someone else’s work for an hour, right?

Xiang Qingnan’s gaze gradually became unkind. Luo Qiang was very flustered now. He wished he could rush up and kick Liu Yu awake. If he had known earlier that he would drag him onto the stage, he would have poured a bucket of cold water on him to wake him up.

He originally thought that he would wake up once he entered the stage. Who would have thought that he would lay on the table and fall asleep at the beginning of the match.

As time passed by, Luo Qiang’s heart had already fallen to the bottom. After half a month of training, Fang Yi had already completely become Xiang Qingnan’s slave. He had also recklessly humiliated her under Xiang Qingnan’s instructions. However, how happy he was before was how panicked he was now.

He was already very clear about Xiang Qingnan’s methods. If this matter was messed up, his end would only be worse than Fang Yi’s.

On the stage, Fang Yi did not seem to care about Liu Yu. She maintained her calm and cold demeanor from the first match and elegantly analyzed the design. She did not look like some of the contestants who were so anxious that they scratched their ears and cheeks.

Naturally, she became the focus of everyone’s attention.

“That beauty, number three, is very impressive.”

“She’s new, right? She’s just like that in the first match. She directly crushed those men. She’s practically a goddess!”

“What do you mean by ‘practically’? She’s now my goddess!”

..

Finally, it was the last ten minutes. In one breath, Luo Qiang raised Liu Yu’s notification tone to ten times its original volume. If it weren’t for the fact that he was afraid that Liu Yu’s voice would be too loud and affect the other contestants, he would have raised his voice to a hundred times its original volume.

However, the loud notification tone finally had an effect. Liu Yu crawled up in a daze.

“Huh? The competition has already started?” Liu Yu scratched his head in pain. Last night, he had been analyzing the blueprints of Cloud Palace City. The extremely high difficulty and the burst of design thinking gave him an incomparable sense of satisfaction.

It was as if he had taken drugs. After spending an entire night, he had finally completed the analysis. The deep tiredness flooded him like a tide. Now, the side effects of using his brain too much were starting to appear. He felt like his head was about to split open.

“Only nine minutes left?” Liu Yu looked at the time and then looked at the design for the competition.

“So simple.” Liu Yu felt a little bored. It was more fun to sleep. He looked around and saw that everyone was immersed in their analysis. Fang Yi, who was in the crowd, was unusually eye-catching.

“You look very beautiful today!” Liu Yu could not help but praise. However, he did not know that the moment he got up, everyone’s eyes were focused on him.

“D * mn, why didn’t you hurry and render your work when you got up? Instead, you looked at the beautiful girl. You’re really shameless!”

“That’s right. Do you even need to say that beauty # 3 is beautiful?”

“Looks like you’ve given up.”

Everyone was talking at once. Looking at Liu Yu holding his head, many people thought that he had just woken up from a hangover.

Luo Qiang was also secretly anxious. It was not easy for him to wake up, but he had to do something serious. He felt that his heart attack was about to be triggered by Liu Yu.

“Ah! It’s so uncomfortable!” Liu Yu rubbed his eyes in pain. After a moment, he finally relaxed. There were only three minutes left. He patted his head and carefully looked at the design in front of him.

Liu Yu began to look at the design but immediately lost his interest. It was still more interesting to look at a beauty.

“Look at No. 3’s speed. I feel that she should be able to complete more than 80% of the design.”

“That can’t be. This time, she’s using a design for the intermediate difficulty. Although it’s definitely the easiest of the intermediate difficulty, it can’t be more than 60% in an hour, right?”

“What do you know? They’ve all gone through specialized training. They would give up on the hardest 10%. If they’re lucky, their completion rate can reach 90% ! But generally, if they can reach 80% , it’s basically guaranteed win.”

“So that’s how it is. She still looks very relaxed. It’s unbelievable.”

…

“The competition is over. Please stop rendering.” An electronic notification sounded. The system displayed everyone’s work in front of everyone.

“See, I’m not wrong. 82 percent. That’s the champion for the semi-finals for sure.”

“Hey, look at the answer.”

“The answer? That shouldn’t be. This…”

“F * ck, it’s not the answer. It’s the contestant completing a 100% rendering!”